Beyond Benchmarks: Enterprise Performance of Chinese LLMs at Production Scale

This deep dive compares four Chinese LLM families—DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, and GLM—based on real production workloads rather than isolated benchmarks. By routing thousands of requests per second across multi-region infrastructure, the author discovered that DeepSeek delivers best-in-class p99 latency and reliability while costing a fraction of competitors, reshaping the cost-performance calculus for enterprise AI deployment.